Senior Auditor, Global Audit & Risk

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, Diageo is home to some of the world's most iconic drinks. From Johnnie Walker and Guinness to Tanqueray, Smirnoff and Don Julio, we craft brands chosen for life's moments - from everyday connections to landmark celebrations.

Bring your talent, curiosity and ambition, and strive for your personal best alongside people who challenge, support and learn from each other. Together, as one outstanding team, we keep learning, improving and raising the bar for our brands, our business and each other.

Join us and play your part in making life's moments mean a little more.

About the role:

The Internal audit Senior Auditor role has a degree of complexity. Global Audit has a global remit, providing assurance over all Diageo operations including Demand companies, Supply operations and Global Functions. The successful candidate will be externally curious, able to collaborate efficiently and act decisively.

Responsibilities:

• Capable of quickly building relationships 'on the ground' with business partners, enabling strong understanding of business processes, risks and control gaps.
• Deliver strong performance as a team member on key audits.
• Demonstrate an understanding of business risks across multiple process areas.
• Empowered to articulate effective and efficient risk mitigation strategies. Demonstrate thorough and consistent knowledge and application of our ways of working (WoWs).
• Apply root cause and data-driven analysis to support the development of impactful business insights and efficiency opportunities.
• Understand the Diageo Purpose (specifically the importance of governance & compliance), and clearly articulate how others can understand, connect to and help deliver it.
• Understand the internal and external risk radar to enable the business to identify solutions to existing and emerging risks.
• Leverage strengths within Global Audit and the wider business and be open to ideas and learnings from others.

• Assurance Assignments: Responsible for carrying out audits of functional / business areas to assess the design and Operating effectiveness of the control. Use of data analytics to test the operating effectiveness of the control. As part of audit field work conduct testing of specified areas and identify control weakness along with dimension of risk and prepare audit report in discussion with the Audit leadership team. Transformation of audit findings into proposals for practical measures and discussion of these recommendations with Process owners/Management to agree on corrective action plans
• Risk Champion: Support the identification and delivery of insights that are highly valued, identify root causes, share best practices. Identify potential for improvement in all business processes.
• Business Partnering: Build great relationships 'on the ground' with audit stakeholders, properly understanding business processes, risks, and control gaps. Participate in functional initiatives proactively.

• Audit or Controls experience in either 'Big 4' environment or multinational entity
• Good understanding of audit (statutory/internal), and/or SOX, risk management processes
• Good understanding of risk and mitigation approaches
• Attention to detail with ability to go in-depth and leverage data meaningfully
• Good written and presentation skills
• Collaborative approach and stakeholder influencing skills
• Ability to work independently and proactively drive tasks through to completion
• Ability to leverage technology to drive efficiencies
• Ability to work across cultures
• Ability to prioritize, move with urgency and overcome challenges/obstacles
• Fluent in English
• Fluent in Portuguese and / or Spanish
• Travel (approximately 35 to 40%) will be required.

• Risk based auditing, including the ability to review core financials and business data to identify potential risks and insights.
• Experience in SAP and data analysis tools.
• In-depth understanding of business processes and systems.
• Project and change management experience.
• Root cause analysis - understanding an issue or complex problem and the key drivers behind it.